Building Strong Clinical Supervisory Partnerships: Cultivating Collaboration, Confidence, and Growth
This interactive virtual session equips clinical supervisors with essential skills for creating growth-oriented supervisory relationships. Participants will explore approaches for fostering trust, building confidence, and delivering effective feedback.
Designed for those currently working as supervisors and those who hope to supervise in the future, this workshop provides concrete tools for immediate implementation. Through brief lectures, guided discussions, and scenario-based activities, supervisors will develop practical strategies for cultivating an environment of mutual trust, professional development, and service quality excellence.
Learning Objectives:
- Cultivate a collaborative supervisory relationship that promotes mutual trust and professional development.
- Develop strategies for building supervisees' self-confidence.
- Increase skills for generating and providing effective feedback that encourages growth.
- Integrate empathy and clear expectations to create an environment of support, transparency, and integrity in direct services.
This workshop satisfies six hours toward the State of Illinois clinical supervision training for professional counselors.
Gabriela Zapata-Alma, (they/them) is a liberation-centered bilingual and multicultural clinician, educator, and national subject matter expert whose driving force is social justice. In addition to their small practice, Gabriela is a Lecturer at the University of Chicago, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice where they coordinate the Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor Training Program. Gabriela is also the Associate Director of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health.
If you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.